Anthropic announced that it has struck a compute partnership with SpaceX and is raising usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API, saying the extra capacity will be used to support its most active customers.
The company states that three changes took effect today. First, it is "doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits" for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Second, it is removing the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts. Third, it is "raising API rate limits considerably" for Claude Opus models.
Anthropic also published an updated rate-limit table for Claude Opus models alongside the announcement.
On compute, the company says it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the capacity at the Colossus 1 data center. According to Anthropic, that arrangement gives it access to "more than 300 megawatts" of new capacity, or "over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs," within the month. The company adds that the capacity should "directly improve" availability for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
The SpaceX agreement joins several other compute deals Anthropic highlighted, including "an up to 5 gigawatt agreement with Amazon," a "5 GW agreement with Google" and Broadcom, a strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA that includes "$30 billion of Azure capacity," and a "$50 billion investment" in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.
Anthropic also states that it trains and runs Claude on AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, and that it continues to look for additional capacity.
The company’s international expansion appears designed around enterprise demand in regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and government. Anthropic says some of that growth will be outside the US, pointing to its Amazon collaboration, which includes additional inference in Asia and Europe. It also says it is choosing countries with legal and regulatory frameworks that support large-scale infrastructure investments and secure supply chains.
The post ends with a note on electricity costs. Anthropic recently committed to covering any consumer electricity price increases caused by its US data centers, and it says it is exploring whether to extend that commitment to other jurisdictions while also investing back into host communities.
Source: Anthropic
